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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. Closing section of a movement.
Coda
Stretto
Baroque
Carol
2. A person with notable technical skill in the performance of music.
Grazioso
Cadence
Serenade
Virtuoso
3. A sequence of chords that brings an end to a phrase - either in the middle or the end of a composition.
Opus
Cadence
Modulation
Slur
4. Often used in overtures - a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.
Medley
Reed
Fugue
Treble
5. The piece of cane in wind instruments. The players cause vibrations by blowing through it in order to produce sound.
Sextet
Twelve-tone music
Choir
Reed
6. Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously.
Treble
Natural
Unison
Virtuoso
7. Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist.
Tutti
Theme
Pentatonic Scale
Cavatina
8. Combining a number of individual but harmonizing melodies. Also known as counterpoint.
Partita
Libretto
Whole-tone scale
Polyphony
9. An important characteristic of the Romantic period. It is a style where the strict tempo is temporarily abandoned for a more emotional tone.
Unison
Unison
Rubato
Suite
10. A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone.
Sharp
String Quartet
Triplet
Conductor
11. The unit of musical rhythm.
Beat
Piano
Grazioso
Musette
12. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
Impromptu
Sequence
Staccato
Musicology
13. A musical scale having five notes.For example: the five black keys of a keyboard make up a pentatonic scale.
Medley
Serenade
Pentatonic Scale
March
14. A reprise.
Recapitulation
Ricercar
Rigaudon
Carol
15. The opening section of a piece of music or movement.
Scherzo
Introduction
Chord progression
Allegro
16. Time in music history ranging from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th centuries. Characterized by emotional - flowery music; written in strict form.
Rhythm
Baroque
Cavatina
Clef
17. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Renaissance
Espressivo
Staccato
Tessitura
18. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Hymn
Piano
Chant
Recital
19. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Instrumentation
Chromatic scale
Staccato
Operetta
20. One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark - melancholic mood.
Octave
Minor
Polytonality
Sonatina
21. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Register
Neoclassical
String Quartet
Chorus
22. Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist; later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto - featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist.
Cadenza
Rococo
Castrato
Tonic
23. Three notes played in the same amount of time as one or two beats.
Vibrato
Energico
Mezzo
Triplet
24. Movement or passage that concludes the musical composition.
Octet
Partial
Instrumentation
Finale
25. Originally an improvised cadence by a soloist. Later it became a written out passage to display performance skills of an instrumentalist or performer.
Opus
Cadenza
Finale
Classicism
26. A quick - improvisational - spirited piece of music.
Chorale
Capriccio
Deceptive cadence
Reprise
27. A whole note is equal to 2 half notes - 4 quarter notes - 8 eighth notes - etc.
Mezzo
Whole note
Round
Tone less
28. The movement of chords in succession.
Progression
Vivace
Triad
Resonance
29. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Castrato
Polyphony
Partita
Klangfarbenmelodie
30. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Recapitulation
Stretto
Gavotte
Tuning
31. A composition written for eight instruments.
Chorale
Refrain
Octet
Triad
32. Arrangement of music for a combined number of instruments.
Tune
Espressivo
Instrumentation
Staccato
33. The study of forms - history - science - and methods of music.
Musicology
Castrato
Octet
Rococo
34. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Concert master
March
Chorale
Orchestration
35. A direction to play expressively.
Espressivo
Harmony
Tritone
Relative pitch
36. Movement or passage that concludes the musical composition.
Quartet
Duet
Reprise
Finale
37. When several strings are tuned to harmonically related pitches - all strings vibrate when only one of the strings is struck.
Dissonance
Legato
Tonal
Resonance
38. Atonal and violent style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind.
Minuet
Dynamics
Expressionism
Suite
39. Word to indicate the movement or entire composition is to be played gracefully.
Chord progression
Sonatina
Grazioso
Development
40. A melodic or - sometimes a harmonic idea presented in a musical form.
Unison
Da Capo
Elegy
Theme
41. A string of chords played in succession.
Glee
Chord progression
Medley
Sonata form
42. A musical form where the principal theme is repeated several times. The rondo was often used for the final movements of classical sonata form works.
Octet
Major
Rondo
Tritone
43. A single line of music played or sung. A musical sentence.
Phrase
Tessitura
Chord
Choir
44. Refers to any great composer - conductor - or teacher of music.
Tune
Cavatina
Minor
Maestro
45. A musical style characterized as excessive - ornamental - and trivial.
Rococo
Modulation
Choir
Scordatura
46. Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously.
Interval
Romantic
Unison
Elegy
47. Three notes played in the same amount of time as one or two beats.
Operetta
Triplet
Gregorian Chant
Treble
48. The keyboard of a stringed instrument.
Clavier
Pitch
Chamber music
Interval
49. A dance written in triple time - where the accent falls on the first beat of each measure.
Grave
Renaissance
System
Waltz
50. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
Scale
Recitative
Legato
Rhythm
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